Klryz
Pronunciation guide: IPA symbols, stress and word endings

Vowels

iːseeɪsite / ɛbedæcat
ɑːfatherɒhot (UK)ɔːlawʊput
uːtooʌcupɜːbirdəabout
eɪdayaɪmyɔɪboyaʊnow
əʊ / oʊgo (UK / US)ɪəneareəhairʊətour

Consonants that look unusual

θthinðthisʃsheʒmeasure
tʃchurchdʒjudgeŋsingjyes

p b t d k g f v s z h m n l r w sound as in ordinary English spelling.

Marks

  • ˈ main stress, before the stressed syllable: /ˈwɔːtə/ water · ˌ lighter (secondary) stress: /ˌʌndəˈstænd/ understand
  • ː a long vowel · (r) an r said only in accents that pronounce it (most American, Scottish, Irish)

Common word endings

  • -s / -es (plurals; he/she form of verbs): /s/ after voiceless sounds (cats), /z/ after voiced (dogs), /ɪz/ after s, z, sh, ch, j sounds (buses, watches). Spelling: -es after s, x, z, ch, sh; consonant + y → -ies (city → cities).
  • -ed (past): /t/ after voiceless sounds (walked), /d/ after voiced (played), /ɪd/ after t or d (wanted). Spelling: love → loved, stop → stopped, carry → carried.
  • -ing: make → making, run → running, see → seeing.
  • Irregular: go, went, gone · be, was, been · see, saw, seen · man → men · child → children · mouse → mice.
  • Older (King James) forms: -eth = -s (he loveth = he loves) · -est with “thou” (thou lovest) · spake = spoke.

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wrest

/ɹɛst/ verb, noun

Forms wrests wresting wrested

  1. verb (transitive) To pull or twist violently.
  2. verb (transitive) To obtain by pulling or violent force. “He wrested the remote control from my grasp and changed the channel.”
  3. verb (transitive, figuratively) To seize.
  4. verb (transitive, figuratively) To distort, to pervert, to twist.
  5. verb (transitive, music) To tune with a wrest, or key.
  6. noun The act of wresting; a wrench or twist; distortion.
  7. noun (music) A key to tune a stringed instrument.
  8. noun (obsolete) Active or motive power.
  9. noun A partition in a water wheel by which the form of the buckets is determined.
  10. noun (agriculture, dated, dialectal) A metal (formerly wooden) piece of some ploughs attached under the mouldboard (the curved blade that turns over the furrow) for clearing out the furrow; the mouldboard itself.

Synonyms

rend

Etymology

From Middle English wresten, wrasten, wræsten, from Old English wrǣstan (“to twist forcibly, wrench”), from Proto-Germanic *wraistijaną, (compare Proto-Germanic *wrīhaną (“to turn, wind; to cover, envelop”), *wrīþaną (“to weave, twist”), Old Norse reista (“to bend, twist”)), from a derivative of Proto-Indo-European *wreiḱ-, *wreyḱ- (“to bend, twist”), *wreyt- (“to bend”). See also writhe, wry.
The noun is derived from the verb.

Possibly a variant of wrist: see the quotation. Wrist is also derived from *wrīþaną (“to weave, twist”), from a derivative of Proto-Indo-European *wreiḱ-, *wreyḱ- (“to bend, twist”), *wreyt- (“to bend”).

A misspelling of rest, probably influenced by wrest (etymology 1, verb and noun).

Webster’s 1913

  1. verb To turn; to twist; esp., to twist or extort by violence; to pull of force away by, or as if by, violent wringing or twisting. "The secret wrested from me." Milton.
  2. verb To turn from truth; to twist from its natural or proper use or meaning by violence; to pervert; to distort.
  3. noun The act of wresting; a wrench; a violent twist; hence, distortion; perversion. Hooker.
  4. noun Active or moving power. [Obs.] Spenser.

Etymology [OE. wresten, AS. wr; akin to wr a twisted band, and wri to twist. See Writhe.]

Sources: Wiktionary · Webster’s 1913 — from the Wiktionary entry “wrest”, CC BY-SA 4.0. Details

Sanskrit

Sanskrit dictionary entries whose meaning includes “wrest” (best matches first).